Politics of culture in Iran
Subtitle: anthropology, politics and society in the twentieth century
By: Nematallah Fazeli.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Anthropology -- Iran -- History.; Anthropology -- History.; Iran -- Social life and customs.
Description: "Politics of Culture in Iran is the first comprehensive study of modern anthropology within the context of Iranian studies and politics in the twentieth century. This book analyses the ways in which anthropology and culture in Iran have interacted with Iranian politics and society. In particular it highlights how and why anthropology and culture became part of wider socio-political discourses and how they were appropriated and rejected by the pre- and post-revolutionary regimes. The author shows that there have been three main phases of Iranian anthropology, corresponding broadly to three periods in the social and political development of Iran."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Iranian anthropology and ideology; title: Introduction; title: Anthropology as the research problem; title: Anthropology as the research subject; title: Methodological and theoretical considerations; title: Methodology; title: Discourses and concepts; title: The politics of anthropology; title: Writing a history of anthropology; title: Organization of the book; title: Anthropology and Iranian cultures; title: Iranian anthropology 1900-1925; title: Introduction; title: Travel accounts; title: Accounts of travel to European countries; title: Orientalism; title: Mythology and nationalist history; title: The Shahnameh; title: National culture and characteristics; title: Archaeology and the identity question; title: Folklore and modernist literati; title: Conclusion; title: Anthropology and nationalism; title: Iranian anthropology 1925-1941; title: Introduction; title: Political discourses in Reza Shah's time; title: Anthropology in the reign of Reza Shah; title: Aryan theory and anthropology; title: Anthropological institutions; title: The Centre for Iranian Anthropology: formative phase; title: What is in the term Mardomshenasi; title: The Anthropological Museum of Iran; title: The Museum of Ancient Iran; title: Intellectual nationalist folklore studies; title: Sadeq Hedayat: founder of Iranian Folkloristics; title: Hedayat's thought; title: Hedayat's folkloristic studies; title: Owsaneh; title: Neyrangestan; title: Taraneh-haye Amiyaneh; title: Folk narratives; title: Folklor Ya Farhang-e Tudeh; title: Literary folkloristic writings; title: After Hedayat; title: Conclusion; title: Anthropology and modernization; title: Iranian anthropology 1941-1979; title: Introduction; title: Anthropology and modernization; title: History of academic anthropology in Iran; title: The Institute for Social Studies and Research; title: The fall of the institute; title: Anthropology and the West; title: Western curriculum; title: Centre in Periphery; title: Impact of western anthropological studies; title: Indigenization; title: Traditional Persian ethnology; title: Social themes of Persian literature; title: An assessment of indigenization; title: Monarchic nationalism; title: The Centre for Iranian anthropology: a new phase; title: The centre in the 1970s; title: Anthropology and anti-modernization; title: Islamic anthropology; title: Shariati's Islamic anthropology; title: The ethnography of the Hajj; title: Jalal al-e Ahmad and rural culture; title: Gharbzadegi; title: Owrazan; title: Tat Neshin-haye Boluk-e Zahra; title: Jazireye Kharg; title: Lost in the crowd; title: Liberal nationalism; title: Anjavi Shirazi and folklore; title: Socialism; title: Samad Behrangi and Azari folklore; title: Gholam Hossein Sa'edi: culture of poverty; title: Ahmad Shamlu and the folklore of Tehran; title: Professional folklorists; title: Conclusion; title: Anthropology and Islamism; title: Iranian anthropology in the 1980s; title: Introduction; title: A revolution against anthropology; title: An ideological explanation; title: Anthropology in the conflict between Islamic and national identity; title: The culture of the war front; title: The religious-secular conflict; title: Theoretical conflicts: Islamic anthropology; title: Muslim anthropology; title: Colonialism and anthropology; title: The culture of anthropology vs. political culture; title: The culture of anthropology; title: The political culture of the Islamic republic of Iran; title: Conclusion; title: Anthropology and Islamic modernization; title: Iranian anthropology in the 1990s; title: Introduction; title: Structural changes in postwar Iran; title: The discourse of reconstruction; title: The discourse of Islamic nationalism; title: The discourse of reform; title: The restoration of anthropology; title: The teaching of anthropology; title: The Iranian conception of anthropology; title: The anthropology curriculum; title: The students' conception of anthropology; title: Local knowledge studies; title: Local/native knowledge; title: Studies of the nomads; title: Cultural heritage studies; title: The Centre for Iranian Anthropology: the final phase; title: Folklore studies; title: Conclusion; title: Iranian anthropology - A conclusion; title: Introduction; title: Iranian national anthropology; title: Rethinking anthropology in Iran.